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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008965690Author Franz KafkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 152g

In the summer of 1923 Virginia Woolf's nephews, Quentin and Julian Bell, started a family newspaper, The Charleston Bulletin. Quentin decided to ask his aunt Virginia for a contribution: 'it seemed stupid to have a real author so close at hand and not...

Written by his trusted friend and companion, Dr John Watson, The Return of Sherlock Holmes: The Case Notes chronicles nine of the most fascinating cases solved by the world's most famous detective. Based on the many notes and evidence gathered during the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509552153Author Hugh PenningtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Polity PressPublisher Polity PressWeight(grams) 138g

Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), one of the greatest of Italian poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive the cultural and moral excellence of ancient Greece and Rome. This two-volume set contains an ample, representative...

A deluxe edition of Lewis Carroll's timeless tale of wondrously charming nonsense, in time for its 150th anniversaryWhen Alice follows the White Rabbit down the rabbit hole, little does she know that she is traveling to a world of magic where...

The Hamburg Score (Gamburgsky schyot) is "a very important concept," wrote Viktor Shklovsky, the famous Russian literary critic and founder of Russian formalism, in 1928. All wrestlers cheat in performance and allow themselves to lose a fight at the...

The original essays in Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature mean to provoke rather than reassure, to challenge rather than codify. Instead of summarizing existing knowledge, scholars working in the field aim at opening fresh discussion;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905881611Author John FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 145mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781889503Author Natalia I PetrovskaiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486821726Author Francis BaconFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

A new, definitive English translation of the celebrated story collection regarded as a landmark of Norwegian literature and culture The extraordinary folktales collected by Peter Christen Asbjornsen and Jorgen Moe began appearing in Norway in 1841...

An entertaining collection of over 400 folk tales of legends, stories, and magic. Translated from the original Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish, this highly acclaimed work is perfect for bedside or fireside reading. About the Author Reimund Kvideland is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394741048Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 74gDimensions(mm) 175mm...

The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth deploys its forty-seven original essays to present a stimulating account of Wordsworth's life and achievement and to map new directions in criticism. In addition to twenty-two essays wholly on Wordsworth's...

Did you hear the one about the newlywed who rushes off for legal advice before the honeymoon is over? Or the husbands who arrange for an enormous tub in which to cure their sugary wives with a pinch of salt? How about a participatory processional toward...

In the historic tradition of calendar stories and calendar illustrations, author and film director Alexander Kluge and celebrated visual artist Gerhard Richter have composed December, a collection of thirty-nine stories and thirty-nine snow-swept...

What is 'Englishness'? Who defines it? What impact have changes to England and the English, as well as England's relationship with the outside world, had on 'Englishness'? Has 'Englishness' become an anachronism at the turn of a new century?These...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913917067Author Qudsia AkhtarFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry Press

From Paris to Prague, from the past to the present, authors and artists explore what Europe means to them - and us.Through moving personal letters, hilarious anecdotes, brilliant new fiction, and original illustrations, Postcards to Europe paints a...

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) was one of the major poets of the English Romantic period. This is the final volume of a six-volume edition of The Poems of Shelley, which aims to present all of Shelley’s poems in chronological order and with full...

Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare himself was the first--the answer is No--and continuing with essays on the men and women who have given great...

Presenting stories which represent each layer of the city of Moscow, from the centre of power to the outer rings of desolate estates and tumbledown shacks, this fascinating collection offers a lively and varied portrait in fiction of Russia's mysterious...

This selection is from L'Espace du Dedans, which collected eight books of prose poems, sketches and free verse. Brilliantly translated by Richard Ellmann, Michaux asks readers to join him in a fantastic world of the imagination. It is a world where wry...

How does the soul relate to the body? Through the ages, innumerable religious and intellectual movements have proposed answers to this question. Many have gravitated to the notion of the "subtle body," positing some sort of subtle entity that...

The visual images of Queen Elizabeth I displayed in contemporary portraits and perpetuated and developed in more recent media, such as film and television, make her one of the most familiar and popular of all British monarchs. This collection of essays...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486431970Author Franz Kafka And RainerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Headstrong heroines and hot-tempered chieftains, loch monsters and hill fairies, cattle raids and clan feuds, wise animals and foolish saints: the Scottish Highlands' folktales date back centuries and preserve the history and beliefs of a people deeply...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679722014Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804162453Author Alastair ChisholmFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Rily Publications LtdPublisher Rily Publications LtdDimensions(mm) 198mm * 12mm *...

Daniela Hodrova shares her unique perception of Prague, through playful poetic prose, and by imaginatively blending historical and cultural motifs with autobiographical moments. A Kingdom of Souls is the first volume of this author's literary journey -...

An award-winning translator presents selections from the haunting final volumes of a leading voice in contemporary Hungarian poetrySzilard Borbely, one of the most celebrated writers to emerge from post-Communist Hungary, received numerous literary...

After his mom dies, PJ reluctantly leaves his New York home and everyone he loves, to live with his Aunt Katie in Edinburgh. A series of strange events begin when his aunt's elderly neighbour and her cat Azrael convince him that his mom, weirdly, is...

The best-known literary achievement of Anglo-Saxon England, Beowulf is a poem concerned with monsters and heroes, treasure and transience, feuds and fidelity. Composed sometime between 500 and 1000 C.E. and surviving in a single manuscript, it is at once...

Twilight of the Idols presents a vivid, compressed overview of many of Nietzsche's mature ideas, including his attack on Plato's Socrates and on the Platonic legacy in Western philosophy and culture. Polt provides a trustworthy rendering of Nietzsche's...

Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006) was one of Scotland's leading twentieth century public intellectuals, and famously one of its most brilliant and combative correspondents. His letters raise issues of particular and widespread interest both within Scotland...

This pioneering Handbook offers a comprehensive consideration of the dynamic relationship between English literature and religion in the early modern period. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were the most turbulent times in the history of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612192949Author Marek HlaskoFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House PublishingWeight(grams) 151g

BE THE BEST AT... A series of brilliant how to guides for sports enthusiasts. With an easy guide to rules, equipment, clothing, diet and mental attitude, these are must-have guides to achieving sporting success. BE THE BEST AT GYMNASTICS Do you want to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912916825Author Alfred DoblinFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo PublishersDimensions(mm) 203mm * 140mm * 51mm